Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 28

I boun' he tuck keer er dat ark.

Who acts: man · What happens: tuck · To what, where: keer

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 boun	nsubj
2	boun	boun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 boun	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tuck	nsubj
5	tuck	tuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 boun	acl:relcl
6	keer	keer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tuck	obj
7	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 ark	advmod
8	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ark	amod
9	ark	ark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tuck	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 boun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tuck	infinitive	man	keer				dat ark obl	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent keer=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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